Wednesday, August 20, 2008

You Tube

I'm quite familiar with You Tube and have used it quite a lot over the last year or so. I have recently watched some pretty good Web 2.0 learning videos by The Common Craft Show and a very funny public education video from the 1950s on how to treat loose women! I have just done a search for a friend's video, and even though I didn't know the title of it, I found it easily. I also had a look at Google Videos and searched on both sites for 'Paris Hilton' - You Tube returned 113,ooo results and Google Videos 88,000, but a lot of the Google Videos came from You Tube! The 60s music videos had been removed from You Tube because of terms of use violation. I've frequently wondered about copyright when copying things from various sites to my blog - is copyright forfeited if one publishes to a site like Flickr or You Tube?
I've chosen the video
Podcasting in Plain English to share, because it explains the next step on our discovery journey, and the link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-MSL42NV3c. I've also just posted it to my blog - I already had an account with You Tube so it was quite easy to add my blog and then post to it. Adding instructional videos to the library websites has possibilities - especially if they're in Plain English.

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